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Drug PolicyDrug Rehab Marketing: Recruiters, Body Brokers & Other Shady Practices in the Treatment Industry

3 weeks ago2413 min

This the third installment of our ongoing look into the drug rehabilitation industry in the United States and the continued use of body-brokering through “drug rehab recruiters”. You can read part 1 here: Drug Rehab Recruiters: How the Drug Rehab Industry Still Participates in Body Brokering. And Part 2 here: Are Drug Rehab Recruiters Exploiting a Body-Brokering Loophole? The addiction treatment industry traps young people into a cycle of relapse and rehab, because, profits, smh…...

by Alexandra LaFollette

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Drug Policy LifestyleIs Legalization of All Drugs the Answer to Drug Epidemics?

3 weeks ago3113 min

The debate on whether or not drugs should be legal has been going on for over a century. If we look back 150 years ago, we can see that the Opium Wars crippled China for many decades. Some argue that there are still parts of China that haven’t even recovered from the epidemic. We can also look to the morphine and laudanum epidemic that ravaged the United States post-civil war until those drugs became regulated....

by PJ Haarsma

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Drug Policy Health LifestyleHow Does Drug Use Affect the Environment? – Amazon Fires & Cocaine

3 weeks ago3011 min

When you think of illegal drugs, the environment may not be the first thought in your mind. Contrary to what most people may believe, illegal drug use does harm the environment in multiple ways. Cocaine is one of the most serious offenders in the drug world. Before we get into the actual process by which cocaine harms the environment, let’s go over some of the basics about the drug itself. What Is Cocaine? Cocaine is...

by Drew Lewis

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Drug Addiction Help Drug Policy HealthDoes the Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Cover My Rehabilitation Process?

4 weeks ago13312 min

Inevitably, one of the first questions asked when discussing drug or alcohol rehabilitation programs is, “will my insurance company pay for it?” If you have employer-provided or otherwise “private” insurance, you must contact your insurer to discover the exact terms under which your insurance covers your recovery journey. However, if you are one of the 12,000,000 (that’s 12 million!) Americans who receive their insurance coverage via the Affordable Care Act exchange (AKA ‘Obamacare’), you are...

by Kreed Kleinkopf

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Drug Addiction Help Drug PolicyAre Drug Rehab Recruiters Exploiting a Body Brokering Loophole?

1 month ago15715 min

As we outlined in part 1 of this series, body brokering has been made illegal at the Federal level with the passage of the 2018 SUPPORT act. However, this bill contains an unfortunate loophole. This allows drug rehab centers to continue to use body brokering to recruit new patients into their facilities. Drug rehabilitation facilities have found a loophole to keep using patient brokers: just start calling them “recruiters.” The 2018 SUPPORT for Patients and...

by Kreed Kleinkopf

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Drug Addiction Help Drug PolicyDrug Rehab Recruiters: How the Addiction Treatment Industry Still Participates in Body Brokering.

2 months ago310316 min

In case you’ve been living under a rock, or are one of the lucky FEW people in the United States who hasn’t been impacted by the opioid epidemic, or drug overdose crisis in some way, you may not have come across the term “body-brokering” before. Body brokering, by large part has been used to keep the addiction treatment industry afloat. Many drug rehabilitation centers still use body brokers, or “drug rehab recruiters” to fill their...

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Drug PolicyDrug Rehab Marketing: Recruiters, Body Brokers & Other Shady Practices in the Treatment Industry

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Drug PolicyDrug Rehab Marketing: Recruiters, Body Brokers & Other Shady Practices in the Treatment Industry

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